Liam Drury's ART 240 Blog

       Steve McCurry's works consist highly of portrait photos, and people as his main subjects. He does however have varying styles. His website has 57 different categories, some being different places such as Japan or New York, and others being different themes such as "recent" or after dark, some of which overlap too. Some of my favorites are his portraits. The amount of detail is mind boggling, some look impossibly crystal clear.      This image was taken in Tibet. His photos are extremely vivid, full of detail, and almost cinematic looking. This one in particular has a very basic background, which helps keep the viewer interested and focused on the main subject. One thing I noticed in most of his portraits is something about the eyes. They pierce your soul as they stare back at you in some images. The clarity is almost more than the human eye could process. Settings wise, I have a feeling McCurry used a very small aperture. There is also a visible...

Marvin Heiferman's Photography Changes Everything Essay write up:      Heiferman talks about Photography, not just as an art, but as a tool in his essay. He explains that Photography is used by just about anyone for various different reasons, whether it is in their line of work, capturing a memory, or expressing an emotion through art, the same medium is used drastically for so many different purposes. I feel like the question "What does Photography mean?" is almost impossible to answer on a global scale because of the fact that it has completely different meanings and values across every form of usage. I think a more appropriate question is "What does photography mean to you?" to the individual. I can't really write about what it means to you though because you are someone else who most likely thinks about it much differently than I do. So... what does photography mean to me?     I think it's extremely hard to give photography one singular meaning, even...